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[logo: WGA Writers Guild CBS News] If CBS wants 24/7 coverage, we need 24/7 union protections. [logo: CBS News 24/7] STRIKE PLEDGE signed by 95% of the unit.

[logo: WGA Writers Guild CBS News] STRIKE PLEDGE DELIVERED. “We, the undersigned Writers Guild of America East members at CBS News 24/7, sign this strike pledge calling on the company to meet us where we are at on our most important issues: guaranteed wage increases, meaningful overtime rules, protected union jurisdiction, and flexible work from home protections. Our colleagues on the bargaining committee have put in significant time and effort to negotiate our new contract. We pledge to support them and will participate at minimum in a 24-hour walkout and strike if necessary to win a contract that protects the things that matter to us the most. We call on management to reach a fair deal with our union by the end of today, our last scheduled bargaining date. We pledge to walk out and, if necessary, strike for a fair contract.”

WGAE members at CBS News 24/7 are prepared to STRIKE if CBS/Paramount management doesn't reach a fair contract today. Members delivered a strike pledge signed by 95% of the 60-member bargaining unit.

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

‘I’ve never been so frightened’: the veteran reporter who turned his lens on the empty bedrooms of school shooting victims The director of an Oscar-nominated documentary that goes into the bedrooms of children killed in US school shootings on why it was his most daunting challenge to date – and the hard task of encouragin...

"All the Empty Rooms, recently nominated for an Academy Award, offers up another way of looking."
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

🔴 The death toll from Israeli attacks across Lebanon has risen sharply in the past week: 

– March 9 (Monday): The toll reached 486.

– March 8 (Sunday): The ministry reported 394 deaths, including 83 children and 42 women.

– March 7 (Saturday): Casualties stood at 294 deaths and 1,023 injuries…

Ro Khanna Calls Out Democrats: “Don’t Say You Oppose the War — Then Fund It” YouTube video by The Lever

🚨 Rep. Ro Khanna calls out Democrats trying to have it both ways on Iran: opposing the war publicly while still considering voting to fund it.

@rokhanna.bsky.social: “It is totally disingenuous… to say you're against the war but vote for the funding.”

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Climate Defiance Doc 'Just Look Up' Enlists Adam McKay, Billie Eilish The Climate Defiance doc 'Just Look Up,' premiering at CPH:DOX, is boosted by E.P. Adam McKay and songs by Billie Elish, Chappell Roan, and Doechii.

“In the end, this isn’t simply a film about protest. It is about the stubborn human impulse to fight for a livable future. It is also about the odd mix of defiance, humor, and sheer determination it takes to do it.”

Here Are the Members of Congress Invested in War More than 50 members of Congress own stock in defense contractors whose profits are soaring from giant Pentagon budgets and supplemental weapons packages.

We found more than 50 members of Congress invested in the stocks of defense contractors they fund (September 2024). Names, companies, and amounts:

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

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Hakeem Jeffries won't commit to blocking additional Iran war funding The House minority leader said Democrats will "cross that bridge when we get to it," but added that President Donald Trump has so far failed to justify his "war of choice."

Profiles in courage

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

These warnings about food security are happening almost weekly now

But does anyone think the government is taking a blind bit of notice

The UKs 3 worst harvests have been in the last 5 years

By 2050, the number of calories per head globally could be halved

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury.
See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...

In about 18 months to two years…

Unfathomably massive, life critical news that 97% of people won’t know because of the cretins who own and operate the mainstream news.

(Sometimes it helps to say/write it out loud even though it does almost nothing at this point)

Also very smart. She’s awesome.

The No World Order Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.

This piece will blow your hair and tie back.
Amazing work by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

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A socialist future is the only future possible other than a Mad Max/Children of Men dystopia.

We’ve reached the point where it’s one or the other.

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

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Spring is in the air and the 58th issue of Current Affairs has hit the shelves, with breathtaking cover art by Myriam Wares!

🌹 How Bernie conquered Burlington
😱 The banal horror of Jimmy Fallon
🔥 Adam McKay on the attention crisis

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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

@williamphamilton.bsky.social

Today's frog is the resplendent shrubfrog.

these craven fucks are lower than dirt. dogshit opposition party

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

Oh and I also got to give a young Richard Pearle a foot rub.

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This is bleak.

My first job when I turned 16 was for a “defense contractor-funded think tank.”
So many memories that summer…

Cue Huey Lewis’ If This Is It

Got my driver’s license, first kiss and saw real time footage of a supersonic missile blowing up a crowded Libyan market.

Graph of the Million Dollar Website showing links that are still reachable as green, links that are unreachable as orange, links that redirect as blue. There is very little green left.

What will be the abandoned malls of the next decade?

Best answer: most of the internet. The web inevitably dissolves into link rot.